Taxonomy Connector
The Taxonomy Connector exposes thesauri and taxonomies from Taxonomy Space as external taxonomies in Tridion Sites. Taxonomy Space is included with Tridion Semantic AI, an optional the optional feature package.
Introduction
In Content Manager, Tridion Semantic AI and its Smart Tagging feature enables users to get automatic suggestions for classification of content. On the Content Delivery side, Tridion Semantic AI makes it possible to build rich search functionality in your website.
Supported capabilities
The Taxonomy Connector provides the following key capabilities:
- Structure
- Retrieves a specified portion of a hierarchy all in one call, including many-to-many relationships between entities.
- Extract Concepts
- Gets relevant concepts from an external taxonomy based on the external system's analysis of Tridion Sites content. The extraction is specific to the content item's content language.
Example use cases
These capabilities make it possible to implement the following use cases (among others):
- Share a common classification design across the whole enterprise where users tag content with concepts from shared taxonomies.
- Support classification with Smart Tagging where Content Manager users can get concept suggestions or choose fully automated tagging.
- Provide website users with enhanced search capabilities:
- semantic search – users get suggestions based on taxonomy concepts and synonyms
- faceted search – users can dynamically drill down to the most relevant content
- Improve SEO, maintain brand consistency, and more through consistently classifying all documents, assets and content.
- Create a mashup of content coming from various sources using a common taxonomy to provide an integrated knowledge experience.